evie

animanga enthusiast 🤍 writing blog, anilist, bsky

[smolhours]

hello, evie here! i mostly post about anime and manga (full titles for og posts, abbreviations for reblogs, spoilers usually untagged). asks are open if you want to chat ^^

general tag directory:

#thesetwocents – notes, meta, and random animanga thoughts

#tomoblurbs – personal posts

#animanga index – index of animanga titles i've talked about

#monthly tomo – monthly media summaries

#summer 2026 – general tag for completed and ongoing anime and manga i'm watching and reading this season

thanks for stopping by ^^

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for personal reference(s):

lists

hobby list

wellness check, when i stare at a screen for too long

[molabuddy]

really specific trope i like that i feel like can only be explained in a diagram

[longsightmyth]

I bring a real 'actually people who are pregnant do deserve some special consideration because they are effectively at least temporarily disabled if not permanently after some complications' vibe to the party that a lot of people don't seem to like

[kingpin-of-steel-act3]

[ihatenearlyeverything]

its ok theyre Gods lil helpers

[oatmealbrain]

And boy are they clumsy

[hydrangeafae]

Hi, these bees are babies! They’re not clumsy at all, this is what is called orientation flights. After birth and before beginning their careers as foragers (as all Honey bees cycle through all the jobs in the Hive throughout their lifespan), Honey bees take short flights back and forth, to and from the Hive, to orient themselves with their wings and their home so they can learn its location and how to get back home after foraging! Everyone has to learn, these are just smol little baby turkeys. Bees use the angle of the sun for location so adults have a better and more direct sense of location than any human

[polar-solstice]

IM SO PLEASED TO LEARN THIS!!!

They are just!!! Student drivers!!! 😭

[sindri42]

BONK!

[nattousan]

"But surely you've at least wanted to try using AI-"

[fuskida]

"Bowl of Water with Night Sky" 2023 oil painting by David Stanger

[tlirsgender]

We need more women characters who are Male Protagonists. You know. Slightly haggard. She's splashing cold water on her face and gripping the edge of the sink staring in the mirror for a minute. She's coping badly with her deadwife

[tlirsgender]

Ok listen I get that people tagging posts with men is a rule of physics on this hellsite but it's kind of bizarre how badly some of you have failed the assignment on this one. A generic male protagonist archetype who is a man is nothing. That's just the normal cliche I'm talking about subverting. What?

[tlirsgender]

Like if you are For Serious headcanoning your blorbo as a trans woman I am kissing you on the head. But I KNOW most of you are not doing that. Come on. For one dollar name a fictional woman. No being a loser does not make him a woman try again

[minotauri]

[louder than everyone] MAN I THINK IT DEPENDS!

[userautumn]

devastating when good characters are put into a stupid show. you were born to fly but that evil hag of a showrunner clipped your golden wings. be free on ao3, my little dove. be free

[maureen2musings]

Irish Coast

daiva_journeys

[thepromiscuousfinger]

[solitairians]

listening to an album you used to love but overplayed for yourself after a really long time after the overplayedness has worn off and it sounds like it's supposed to again is the closest to being in heaven you can get during your mortal life i think

[loth-caatgirl]

[tangentiallly]

i haven't knhpost for a while but this has been on my mind. i do think gyokuyou adores maomao and is rooting for jinmao and their love and genuinely cares for them and wants them to be happy to enjoy their love that's all true, but also at the same time considering maomao's identity and how maomao does not want to be bound to a consort much less empress role and gyokuyou, cheerful and lovely and always smiling gyokuyou who's kind to her servants, observant girl who grew up in a family that taught her what she needed to know about surviving and winning affection, invested in the place she came from, her hometown's economy growth and other such things, who probably reads maomao well enough to understand her not wanting to be a in a relationship and role that bounds her so tight, who probably had some suspicions about jinshi's reluctance for succeeding the emperor and direct confirmation after the Brand Incident - jinmao happening is good because she is their friends and want them to be happy and is rooting for them, but also it means her son's role as the crown prince is more cemented, her son is more likely to be the future emperor when things stay on this track, and her role as the empress firmer, and it affects her hometown, makes the west flourish. gyokuyou has always been a nice enough boss to maomao and i believe she cares for her and wants her to be happy, wants love for her, but at the same time, cheerful and kind as she can be, we saw her family we saw her past we saw how she learned to use smile as a way of surviving, her pretty smile that she knows the power of. she likes jinmao on a personal level but jinmao happening is also politically convenient for her, her son, her family, and both things are true, and i'm not suggesting she is being manipulative, but i don't think she's unaware either. and i just think it's fascinating. it makes me enjoy her character even more. i like her

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

"Just because I'm right, doesn't mean I'm being helpful" is a vastly underrated thought process that I strongly encourage others to get comfortable with

[whatbigotspost]

Hey op thanks for fundamentally rearranging my molecules in some helpful way this fine evening

[sabyg133]

i love skimming through the novels only to find something that pisses me off >.<

crown prince and heir apparent are not interchangeable terms...

for Jinshi to no longer be the crown prince someone else has to be given that title, because it is a formal title that is appointed. Gyokuyou's son holds the rank and title of the crown prince, not because he is the Emperor's first born but because of the deal that Jinshi and the Emperor made that Jinshi would not remain the crown prince once the Emperor had a son to hold the title, and because the Emperor has formally declared Gyokuyou's son as his successor.

Jinshi IS the heir apparent, if something happens to the Emperor the heir apparent is the one that is assumed to step in, not a formal title but a social one. Jinshi is the heir by assumption, as we see in LN15 when someone needs to take over for the Emperor, and it is not anyone of the Gyoku family or faction as an extension of the crown prince but Jinshi as assumed heir.

The conflict that is going on re the succession crisis is largely stemming from arguments about Jinshi being the heir apparent and the want for that to be reformalised with the title of crown prince he lost to Gyokuyou's son, also because if Gyokuyou's son is not the crown prince her position as empress and the power she can wield become a lot more shaky.

i get that crown prince being the first in line, and the heir apparent being the first in line, makes it seem like they are the same but they are different, and it matters which is being used, and i don't like that it seemingly isn't in the apothecary diaries and i have to assume its the fault of Kevin who does not seem to like the phrase crown prince (flash backs to milord heir in LN4, which is also not the same thing) it makes me want to check the Japanese to see if they are being treated as different terms by Hyuganatsu or what because i really am so upset by them being treated so interchangeably in a succession crisis plot

[froggoharry]

One scene that i really adored throughout the series